Hillary Rodham Clinton Cleared by One Grand Jury, CBS Reports

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Hillary Rodham Clinton has been cleared by the grand jury that
questioned her for more than four hours last year on
Whitewater-related matters, CBS News reported Wednesday.

The network quoted an unidentified source close to the grand
jury as saying, "I'm not sure what's going on in Arkansas, but I
give you my word, there is no indictment of her here in Washington."

Special prosecutor Kenneth Starr convened two grand juries to
investigate the Whitewater affair, a complex web of Arkansas
business dea ls involving the Clintons and allegations of a
cover-up at the White House.
The Washington grand jury met for 18 months and dealt with
questions of possible Whitewater-related wrongdoing, along with
other issues, by the Clintons after they moved into the White House
in January 1993.
The Little Rock grand jury is examining the original Whitewater
land deal in 1978 - and subsequent events in Arkansas - in which
the Clintons were partners with James and Susan McDougal.
Although their investment lost money, questions have arisen
about whether money for the project and for Bill Clinton's
gubernatorial campaign were siphoned from the failed Madison
Savings and Loan Association, which James McDougal also ran.
Neither of the Clintons has been accused of wrongdoing in Starr's
long-running investigation.
Hillary Clinton was summoned before the Washington grand jury
in January 1996 to answer questions about the mysterious appearance
in the White House family quarters of legal billing records sought
for two years by Whitewater investigators. …